Dr. Edyta Greer, Baruch College

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Airport Security Trays Carry More Cold Germs Than Toilets, Study Finds

Popular article:

Karasz, Palko. “Airport Security Trays Carry More Cold Germs Than Toilets, Study Finds,” New York Times. Sep. 5, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/world/europe/airport-security-trays-virus.html

Primary Source:

Ikonen, Niina et al. “Deposition of Respiratory Virus Pathogens on Frequently Touched Surfaces at Airports.” BMC Infectious Diseases 18, no. 1 (2018). doi:10.1186/s12879-018-3150-5.

Immunotherapy Drugs Slow Cancer That Has Spread to the Brain

Popular Article:

Grady, Denise. “Immunotherapy Drugs Slow Skin Cancer That Has Spread to the Brain,” New York Times, Aug. 22, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/health/melanoma-immunotherapy-brain-tumors.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth

Primary source:

Tawbi, Hussein A., Forsyth, Peter A., Algazi, Alain, Hamid, Omid, Hodi, F. Stephen, Moschos, Stergios J., Khushalani, Nikhil I. et al, “Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Melanoma Metastatic to the Brain.” New England Journal of Medicine 379: 722-730. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1805453

Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine

Levitt, Alice. 2018. “I tried ketamine to treat my depression. Within a day, I felt relief.” Vox. https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/7/24/17603616/depression-treatment-severe-ketamine-special-k.

Berman, Robert M., Angela Cappiello, Amit Anand, Dan. A Oren, George R. Heninger, Dennis S. Charney, John H. Krystal. 2000. “Antidepressant effects of ketamine in depressed patients.” Biology Psychiatry Journal 47, no. 4: 351-354. https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(99)00230-9/abstract.

 

N.B. Eportfolios did not allow me to indent the citations.

New Compound That Can Stop Cancerous Cells

Popular Article:

Cohut, Maria. “New Compounds ‘put Cancer Cells into a Permanent Sleep’.” Medical News Today, August 7, 2018. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322695.php.

Primary Source:

Baell, Jonathan B., David J. Leaver, and Tim Thomas. “Inhibitors of Histone Acetyltransferases KAT6A/B Induce Senescence and Arrest Tumour Growth.” Nature 560 (August 1, 2018): 253-57. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0387-5.

Alcohol Wasted on You

Popular Article:

Achenbach, Joel. 2018. “Safest Level of Alcohol Consumption Is None, Worldwide Study Shows.” The Washington Post. August 23, 2018. Accessed September 07, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/safest-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-none-worldwide-study-shows/2018/08/23/823a6bec-a62d-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?utm_term=.c9821f49416c.

Primary Source:

GBD 2016 Alcohol Collaborators. 2018. Alcohol Use and Burden for 195 Countries and Territories, 1990–2016: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.” The Lancet, August 23, 2018. Accessed September 07, 2018. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(18)31310-2.

 

 

Engineering Microbes to Cure Disease

Popular Article: 

Zimmer, Carl. “Scientists are Retooling Bacteria to Cure Disease.” New York Times, Sept. 4, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/health/synthetic-biology-pku.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth&action=click&contentCollection=health&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront.

Primary Source:

Rowe, Sarah E. and Isabella, Vincent M. “Synthetic Biology and Engineered Live Biotherapeutics: Toward Increasing System Complexity.” Nature Biotechnology 36, (Aug. 13, 2018): 857-864. doi: https://doi-org.remote.baruch.cuny.edu/10.1038/nbt.4222.

Insulin Pill Used to Treat Diabete

Popular Article:

Cohut, Maria. 2018. “Diabetes: The Insulin Pill May Finally Be Here.” Medical News Today, June 26.  https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322258.php

Primary Source:

Banerjee, Amrita, Kelly Ibsen, Tyler Brown, Renwei Chen, Christian Agatemor, and Samir Mitragotri. 2018. “Ionic Liquids for Oral Insulin Delivery.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), June 25. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722338115

Nano-Swarm Robots Developed by Hong Kong Scientists

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Wang, Cat. “Hong Kong Scientists Develop New ‘nano-swarm’ Robots.” CNN. September 04, 2018. Accessed September 07, 2018. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/04/health/nano-swarm-robots-intl/index.html.

 

 

Primary Source: 

Yu, Jiangfan, Ben Wang, Xingzhou Du, Qianqian Wang, and Li Zhang. “Ultra-extensible Ribbon-like Magnetic Microswarm.” Nature News. August 21, 2018. Accessed September 07, 2018. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05749-6#Sec12.

Steps toward Gene-editing to treat DMD

Park, Alice. “CRISPR Gene Editing Fixes Muscular Dystrophy in Dogs.” Time. August 30, 2018. Accessed September 06, 2018. http://time.com/5382101/crispr-muscular-dystrophy-in-dogs/.

http://time.com/5382101/crispr-muscular-dystrophy-in-dogs/

Amoasii, Leonela, John C.w. Hildyard, Hui Li, Efrain Sanchez-Ortiz, Alex Mireault, Daniel Caballero, Rachel Harron, Thaleia-Rengina Stathopoulou, Claire Massey, John M. Shelton, Rhonda Bassel-Duby, Richard J. Piercy, and Eric N. Olson. “Gene Editing Restores Dystrophin Expression in a Canine Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.” Science, August 30, 2018. Accessed September 5, 2018. doi:10.1126/science.aau1549.

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Medical Clowns: A New Way of Curing Illness

Popular Article:

“Healing with Humor: Israeli Medical Clown Spreads Laughter in S. Africa.” The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. August 13, 2018. Accessed September 07, 2018. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Healing-with-humor-Israeli-medical-clown-spreads-laughter-in-S-Africa-564686.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Healing-with-humor-Israeli-medical-clown-spreads-laughter-in-S-Africa-564686

Primary Source:
Slot, Jesminne Bruins, Michelle Hendriks, and Ronald Batenburg. “Feeling Happy and Carefree: A Qualitative Study on the Experiences of Parents, Medical Clowns and Healthcare Professionals with Medical Clowns.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being 13, no. 1 (August 29, 2018): 1503909. doi:10.1080/17482631.2018.1503909.
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